2007Oct19: The Red List of Threatened Species 2007 reports that 80% of Tubastraea floreana, a coral specie around the Galápagos Islands, have disappeared since the early 1980s. A total of ten coral species of coral in Galápagos Islands are included on the Red List (IPS, 2007).
Reference: Inter Press Service. 2007. http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39728
Image Description: Satellite photo of the Galapagos islands. Source: NASA. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Galapagos-EO.jpg Image Permission: This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that “NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted”.
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